page_title: Grover Cleveland
section_title: Administration and Cabinet
hierarchical_section_title: Grover Cleveland / First presidency (1885–1889) / Administration and Cabinet
caption_attribution_description: English: Cleveland's First Cabinet
context_page_description: Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
  Born to a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland grew up in upstate New York. In 1881, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo and later, governor of New York. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs; Free Silver; inflation; imperialism; and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. His crusade for political reform and fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era. Cleveland won praise for his honesty, self-reliance, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. He fought political corruption, patronage, and bossism.
caption: Cleveland's first Cabinet. 
  Front row, left to right: Thomas F. Bayard, Cleveland, Daniel Manning, Lucius Q. C. Lamar 
   Back row, left to right: William F. Vilas, William C. Whitney, William C. Endicott, Augustus H. Garland
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